{"id":4978,"date":"2015-01-28T14:51:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T19:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2015-01-28T14:51:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T19:51:52","slug":"how-nebraskans-are-winning-the-fight-against-keystone-xl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4978","title":{"rendered":"How Nebraskans are winning the fight against Keystone XL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline bold huge\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/2015\/01\/nebraskans-winning-fight-keystone-xl\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Nebraskans are winning the fight against Keystone XL<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Senate Democrats\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/01\/keystone-xl-bill-senate-114609.html\">filibustered a measure<\/a>\u00a0yesterday that would speed up the vote on whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which could take the decision on Keystone out of the hands of both the White House and the State Department. Known as cloture, the move \u2014 pushed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell \u2014 would have effectively quashed 12 amendments to the bill brought by Democrats,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillibrand.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press\/release\/as-keystone-debate-continues-gillibrand-introduces-amendments-to-protect-clean-water-hold-oil-and-gas-companies-accountable\">including one<\/a>\u00a0to close the \u201cHaliburton loophole\u201d and mandate that gas drilling companies comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act, and another to require that oil companies contribute money to government clean-up efforts in the event of spills or leakage. In the wake of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/yellowstone-oil-spill-missing-from-keystone-xl\/202266\">50,000 gallon crude oil spill<\/a>\u00a0into Montana\u2019s Yellowstone River on January 17, the result of a pipeline \u201cbreach,\u201d Republicans\u2019 efforts seem especially bold. As congressional Republicans jockey to rush approval of the controversial infrastructure project, the millions who live along the Keystone XL\u2019s proposed route have been left out of the conversation on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Art Tanderup is a farmer and retired schoolteacher. He and his wife, Helen, live in Antelope County, Neb., just outside the town of Neligh along the eastern Sandhills and over the Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies water to over 80 percent of High Plains residents \u2014 around 2.3 million people. A few years ago, a representative from TransCanada told the Tanderups that the Keystone XL pipeline would run directly through their property, offering \u2014 as they had other landowners in the region \u2014 money to sign an \u201ceasement,\u201d or legal right of way for the company to build on their farm. After researching the pipeline and the tar sands, Art became involved with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/boldnebraska.org\/\">Bold Nebraska<\/a>, which has been a leading voice in the fight against the pipeline since its founding in 2010. Since that time, Art has been active in the movement against the Keystone XL pipeline in Nebraska and at the national level, working with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/feature\/cowboys-indians-unite-inside-unlikely-alliance-foretells-victory-climate-movement\/\">Cowboy Indian Alliance<\/a>\u00a0and advocating against the pipeline in Washington, D.C. Last fall, Tanderup Farms hosted Willie Nelson, Neil Young and thousands from around the country for the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/boldnebraska.org\/concert\/\">Harvest of Hope<\/a>\u201d concert, a benefit for Bold Nebraska, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ienearth.org\/\">Indigenous Environmental Network<\/a>\u00a0and the Cowboy Indian Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Nebraskans are winning the fight against Keystone XL Senate Democrats\u00a0filibustered a measure\u00a0yesterday that would speed up the vote on whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which could take the decision on Keystone out of the hands of both the White House and the State Department. Known as cloture, the move \u2014 pushed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1030,1113,2998,590,2344,877],"class_list":["post-4978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-keystone-xl-pipeline","tag-nebraska","tag-ogallala-aquifer","tag-oil-pipeline","tag-us-state-department","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}